Three Minute Leadership: Improve or Create
To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning
Peter Drucker wrote: “Time is the scarcest resource; and unless it is manage, nothing else can be managed.” Since it is the leader’s scarcest resource, this means that there will be choices, critical and surgical, on how best to continuously add value in its use. In his blog, Making a Straighter Ruler, Seth Godin gives us an insights that helps simplify the leader’s decision-making process:
Making a Straighter Ruler
It’s not easy. It’s hard to get straighter than straight.
Over time, processes that seek to decrease entropy and create order are valued, but improving them gets more difficult as well. If you’re seeking to make the organized more organized, it’s a tough row to hoe.
Far easier and more productive to create productive chaos, to interrupt, re-create, produce, invent and redefine.
Don’t you just love the excitement of the words: “productive chaos, interrupt, re-create, produce, invent and redefine.” It is no longer just about them. It is about new, challenging and incredible possibilities. There is a place for continuous improvement in our professional and business life. Yet great leaders looks that which great value – the greater value of seeing life’s and their potential – reaching out to explore and realize something they did not believe possible. That is the fun and excitement of each day and each opportunity. On your incredible journey remember the words of Michael Altshuler, author: “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” Enjoy your magnificent flight to being more than you ever dreamed you could be.
Have a beautiful day, a magnificent week and one heck of a summer!!!
Mike
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